The Yellow Nineties Online The Dial, Volume IV, 1896 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2020</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>DIALV4_icon9</idno> <publisher>The Yellow Nineties Online</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor>Charles Ricketts</editor> <editor>Charles Shannon</editor> <author>Charles Ricketts</author> <title>Two Pages of the Vale Type The Vale Press London 1896 Ricketts, Charles. "Two Pages of the Vale Type." The Dial, vol. 4, 1896. Dial Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2019-2020. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020. https://1890s.ca/dialv4-ricketts-vale-type-AG/

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 1896 English English literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals Great Britain -- Periodicals Visual Art Possible Genres (multiple): "Fiction," "Nonfiction," "Poetry," "Paratext" (TOC, prospecti, advertisements, frontmatter, titlepage), "Review" (older reviews), "Criticism" (including critical introductions), "Visual Art" (images, bio images), Historiography (bios),"Bibliography" (intros, crit, bios, anything with a bibliography attached), "Drama," "Ephemera," "Translation," "Religion," "Travel Writing," "Music, Other,") Still Image Possible Types (singular): "Periodical" (texts/most stuff), "Interactive Resource" (current writing, biographies, not old reviews), "Still Image" (images, visual art), "Physical Object" (posters, prospecti) Book History Art History Possible Disciplines (multiple): "Book History (include for all periodical items)," "Literature," "Art History (use for art, also use for reviews)," "History (don't use in a general sense)," "Theatre Studies," "Musicology," "Philosophy," "Anthropology," "Science"
Two Pages of the Vale Type DIALV4_icon9 DIALV4_icon9 Two Pages of the Vale Type Charles Ricketts Charles Ricketts DIALV4_16im 1896 In the middle of The Writing on the Wall between page 28 and page 29 unknown type specimen Wood engraving and letterpress staircase woman mythical figure hydra basket type specimen Two Pages of the Vale Type The insert is printed on four pages, numbered i-iv, in black ink. On the first page, the title is printed in caps, centred, at the top of the page. The subheading is printed on the second page, aligned left, in caps, preceded by a fleuron. The third and fourth pages are full-page samples of the Vale type. The third page shows the title in caps, with fleurons, and an illuminated drop-cap P. Within the P is a small historiated image, or scene. In the left foreground, a nude woman bends in profile toward the centre of the image, descending steps, her body following the curve of the letter P. She carries a basket over her left arm and clutches her long hair in her right. On the right side of the image, three heads of a hydra emerge from an open doorway, facing the woman. They are set against a brick wall background. The rest of the text continues in upper and lower case. The page has a large right-hand margin, which is empty except for a fleuron and subtitle at the top of the page. The fourth page is the same as the third, except the text is in all caps with a much smaller right margin.